Adlington, William (trans.)The Golden Asse of ApuleiusLondon Grant Richards Ltd. 1913 Limited Edition Hardcover Very Good No Jacket as Published London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1913 279 pp with deckled edges. A limited edition of 1150 copies. This book has an engraved plate, probably the frontpiece of a Seventeenth Century edition published in Amsterdam, as a frontpiece and intricate scrolling for the initial letter of each chapter. There is some light foxing to the first half dozen pages and the endpapers are tanned from the glue used. The brown boards with tan cloth spine are rubbed at extremities, slightly bowed, with three areas where the pressed surface has been pulled off though the undercolor is the same. The spine has an intricate pattern stamped in gold. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Quarter-bound Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket as Published. Dust jacket present.
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40.00 USD

Beerbohm, MaxThe Works of Max Beerbohm 10 VolumesLondon William Heinemann 1922 Limited Edition of 780. Hardcover Very Good No Jacket SignedLondon: William Heinemann, 1922 A Limited edition of 780 published between 1922 -1928 and signed by Beerbohm. Works of Max Beerbohm, More, Yet Again, And Even More, Zuleika Dobson, Seven Men, Around Theatres l, Around Theatres ll, A Variety of Things. Bound in colored cloth with paper titles on spines and an extra title sticker in back endpapers. Texts are clean, tight and unmarked, endpapers glue-stained. Spines are sun-faded.. Signed by Author. Limited Edition of 780.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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800.00 USD

Bles, JosephRare English Glasses of the XVII & XVIII CenturiesLondon Geoffrey Bles Ltd., Printed at the Morland Press 1924 Hardcover Good Fair London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd., Printed at the Morland Press, 1924 Undated but presumed to be 1924. 69 pp with 100 B&W tipped-in plates.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. All plates protected by glasine. Because of the tipped-in plates, the heavy stock untrimmed -edge pages are slightly rippled. Front hinge partially cracked but holding. Blue cloth boards with gold-stamped titles along spine are sunned and rubbed at extremities with loss of material to lower corners and head of spine.. Grey paper wrapper with price of L5,5s is heavily chipped along edges, now in protective mylar. The Bles Collection of English and Irish Glass had been lent to the Victoria and Albert Museum in the year preceding this book's publication. A review of the show describes the collection as "particularly rich in glasses of individual interest, and every piece included may be said to illustrate a different aspect of the development of the craft.". Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Dust jacket present.
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245.00 USD

Booker, ChristopherPrivate Eye's Romantic EnglandLondon Weidenfield & Nicholson 1963 First Edition Hardcover Very Good No Jacket London: Weidenfield & Nicholson, 1963 Subtitled "The Last Days of Macmillan" Cartoons and satirical essays on England in the early 60's. Takes you back to the good old days when scandals simply involved politicians and floozies.Text is clean,tight and unmarked. Pictorial cover is bright and clean, lightly bumped at corners. 9" x 11 1/2". First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9" x 11 1/2". First Edition.
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18.50 USD

Boswell, JamesBoswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D Now First Published from the Original ManuscriptNew York The Literary Guild 1936 First Thus Hardcover Very Good + No Jacket New York: The Literary Guild, 1936 435 pp.The private papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle. Text is exceptionally clean, tight and unmarked save for previous owner's name on flyleaf. There is a barely visable strip of moisture staining aprox 1/4 inch deep along top edge of pp. i-xvii . Pictures of Boswell and Johnson and the flaps of the DJ have been pasted on the front and back endpapers. A foldout map of the journey on heavy paper is the frontis. Four B&W photographic plates of the original manuscript ( the listed plate of Rorie More's claymore is not a plate but a line illustration within the text). The tan cloth boards with brown printing are clean and only lightly bumped. This is a large, solid book in overall Very Good Plus condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good +/No Jacket. First Edition.
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21.00 USD

Bridgeman, Harriet;Drury, ElizabethThe British EccentricNew York Clarkson N. Potter 1976 0517524996 / 9780517524992 Hardcover Very Good Good New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1976 159 pp. B&W illustrations on every page. Short esssays on various English eccentrics including "The Princess Caraboo", Aleisteir Crowley, Sir George Sitwell, Ouida and Thomas de Quincy. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, not ex-libe. DJ is intact and clean but has several closed tears.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Dust jacket present.
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10.00 USD

Brittain, VeraTestament of Youth an Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900 - 1925NYC MacMillan 1933 Second Printing Hardcover Good No Jacket NYC: MacMillan, 1933 661 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, yellowed. A photo of a woman writing (from the letter could be Vera Brittain, hard to tell) and a letter are glued to the front endpapers and first free page. The letter (dated March 1943) is from a friend of Vera Brittain's telling news of Brittain's children and war news.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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85.00 USD

Bryant, ArthurThe Age of Elegance 1812 - 1822Great Britain Penguin Pelican Book 1958 Paperback Very Good + No Jacket as Published Great Britain: Penguin Pelican Book, 1958 469 pp with six B&W maps. The climax in the saga of the Napoleonic wars and a survey of England as she emerged, rich, powerful and confident, from them. Text is clean, tight and unmarked save for a price stamp on the title page. Cover in intact but rubbed.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good +/No Jacket as Published. Dust jacket present.
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11.00 USD

Burl, AubreyPrehistoric AveburyLondon Yale University Press 1979 1st Edition Hardcover Near Fine Very Good London: Yale University Press, 1979 275 pp with B&W and color illustrations throughout text. By far the largest of many British stone circles, the multiple circles and earthworks of Avebury stands on the Marlborough Downs, eighteen miles from Stonehenge. This complex of prehistoric remains with its many associated tombs and relics has long fascinated archeologists. Audrey Burl carefully sifts the archeological and historical evidence available about the monuments and their builders to present a comprehensive picture of the life of the primitive communities who erected these massive structures nearly 5000 years ago. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean, bright, undamaged with only slight bumping to spine ends. In mylar jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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24.00 USD